Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

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Wound Rotor Induction Motors

A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

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AC Instrumentation Transducers

Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

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Reluctance Motor

The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

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Stepper Motors

Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

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Brushless DC Motor

Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

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Instrumentation Amplifier Gain Calculator

The instrumentation amplifier calculator will assist in the design and analysis of a conventional instrumentation amplifier circuit by calculating the required resistor values and gain.

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Lorentz Force Calculator

This calculator will determine the combined Lorentz force exerted on a charged particle moving through both an electric field and a magnetic field.

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Parallel Resistor Calculator

Calculate the equivalent resistance of up to six resistors in parallel with ease while learning how to calculate resistance in parallel and the parallel resistance formula.

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Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

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Flash ADC

Also called the parallel A/D converter, this circuit is the simplest…

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Synchronous Motors

Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

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What is Alternating Current (AC)?

Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

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AC Commutator Motors

Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

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Other Specialized Motors

Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

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Digital Codes

Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

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DC Lab - Precision Potentiometer

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a precision potentiometer from three lower precision potentiometer and learn about voltage range compression and parameter interactions.

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Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)

The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as…

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Active-mode Operation (IGFET)

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Performance-Based Assessments for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

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Solid-state Relays

Limitations of Electromechanical Relays As versatile as…

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What is Network Analysis?

The basic application of Ohm’s law to combinations of series and…

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Octal and Hexadecimal Numeration

Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent…

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The Triode

De Forest’s Audion tube came to be known as the triode tube…

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Potentiometers

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

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Boolean Rules for Simplification

Boolean algebra finds its most practical use in the simplification of…

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Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)

The invention of the bipolar transistor in 1948 ushered in a…

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Resistance

The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…

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Twisted-Pair Impedance Calculator

A tool designed to calculate the characteristic impedance of a twisted-pair cable

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Contributors (16)

Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…

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Network Protocols

Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

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Design Project: Telegraph System

What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?

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Edge Coupled Stripline Impedance Calculator

A calculator for computing the impedance of an edge coupled stripline.

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Introduction to Digital Communication

In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…

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Encoder

What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…

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